Proton Experimental gets its first update for the month of May. Newly playable titles include: Gary Grigsby’s War in the East/West Beneath a Steel Sky Video playback has been fixed in: Street Fighter V Disintegration POSTAL 4: No Regerts A few bug fixes were added, specifically for Elden Ring and DEATHLOOP. The former should no longer crash after an extended gameplay session, while the latter should be able to resume after a long system suspend.

Yesterday the Steam Deck client got an update. Included in this update is Steam hardware survey functionality, several bug fixes, per-game performance profiles, improved functionality when switching between online and offline modes, new keyboard layouts, a “Stop Streaming” button in the Power menu when hosting a Remote Play session, plus a few other goodies. Here’s the full changelog: General - When connected to an external display, Steam Deck interface is now scaled to virtual 1280x800 resolution (more work on this feature and functionality is underway) - Added Steam hardware survey functionality for Steam Deck - Fixed issue with multiple new Steam Inventory items notifications appearing - Fixed issue with users showing up as Favorites when they are no longer friends - Fixed issues with various dialogs laying out incorrectly when the on-screen keyboard is visible - Fixed on-screen keyboard and magnifier interstitials not taking input on first launch of some games Per-game performance profiles - Players can now set game-specific performance settings.

Well, chances are you’ve probably come across this already in the headlines yesterday, but if not, NVIDIA is gradually taking strides towards the FOSS philosophy, starting with their GPU kernel modules. They’re now open-source and available on GitHub, under a dual GPL/MIT license. All the documentation is there too, including how to compile it and what CPU architectures are supported. Linux kernels 3.10 and newer are supported. Wow. About time. It’s good news; ever try to downgrade your NVIDIA driver on Linux and end up borking your system?

Just posted today, Days Gone is now Steam Deck Verified. All the post shows is a screenshot with the green checkmark with all the requirements met, including full control functionality, Deck pad icons, legible text, and a decent default graphics configuration. Nonetheless, it’s a massively popular title, one that’s been published by PlayStation PC LLC. Great to see a hit like this look and feel good on the Deck! Image credits: Steam post

Slippi Launcher version 2.5.0 released a few days ago. The developers acknowledged that this is a big version difference from the previous 2.1.15 release and said that they’ve “been hard at work on a lot of developer side improvements that will make it easier for us to work on some big features we’re really excited about.” So first thing’s up, Dolphin updates are now transparent and done in the background. This means less waiting for the application to start.

WinesapOS has been updated to 3.1.0-alpha.0. Primary new features to this update include better Intel and NVIDIA graphics driver support, the winesapOS repo has been added, and most of the pre-installed applications now come as Flatpaks. Previously, since the Neptune kernel doesn’t support NVIDIA graphics, users who used GPUs from said company would get a black screen on boot. Now NVIDIA users can select Arch Linux, with Linux linux-lts (fallback initramfs) and still be able to use winesapOS.

Earlier today the Heroic Games Launcher got updated to 2.3.0 Beta 2. Changes in this new beta includes the ability to choose what platform to install games to on Linux and Mac OS (for example, you can install the Windows version of a native game), change the theme, add games to your Favorites collection, and new ways to sort installed games. There’s also bountiful UI bug fixes, performance improvements, and other features.

Steam Deck over 2,600 verified/playable titles Final Fantasy VII Remake runs great small update adds more keyboard layouts PowerTools is a plugin that enables the user to tweak even more power settings Kodi adds Deck control support want to try an unofficial version of SteamOS 3 on a device outside of the Deck? Try HoloISO Software Updates (Wine, Bottles, MangoHUD, FNA, Ryujinx, etc) Wine updated to 7.8 with plenty of bug fixes, X11 and OSS drivers converted to PE, and a few other features Bottles gets an update with a crashing bug fix.

The podcast that Kiwi Talkz had with Eric Wolpaw – one of Valve’s writers – has been reported on by many media outlets. Specifically about bringing Portal 3 to life. “Let’s do it!” Wolpaw says. “I’m not getting any younger.” But here’s the problem: Wolpaw doesn’t have much “power” at Valve. Someone higher up at the corporation would have to give the green light in order for them to even consider it.

It’s not often that a game developer reveals the sales numbers for their games. But I noticed a Reddit post by the developer of the puzzle game Rob Riches who goes over not only the total sales of the game, but how many copies were sold per platform. A total of 266 copies were sold. 237 of those copies were bought on Windows. 27 were bought on Linux. That’s a little over 10% of total sales!